CFP for BWWC 2018 (Abstracts due 12/8/17)

The twenty-sixth annual BWWC invites papers and panel proposals interpreting the theme of “New Directions.” Since the landmark “Generations” conference of 2017 invites a retrospective look back, “New Directions” will encourage turning to the future to ask crucial methodological, theoretical, and content-based questions about our fields’ key concepts and literatures. [Go to the 2018 conference website.]

What do we mean by “British”? By “women”? By “writers”? We welcome papers and panel proposals addressing change, development, destabilization, and potential in terms of both British women writers and the field of British women writers scholarship. We envision panels focused around the stability of gender-, nation-, and profession-based abstractions, as well as research on individuals living at the margins of these terms.

By December 8, 2017, send 300-word abstracts for paper proposals, along with a brief bio (in one document) to:

Panel proposals should include individual paper abstracts, short speaker bios, as well as a brief panel description (in one document). All proposals must engage the conference theme and relate to British women’s writing in the span between the eighteenth and early twentieth centuries. Graduate students are encouraged to apply for a travel grant sponsored by the BWWA.